Re: Quantum Supremacy

r goal than encryption (say), etc. but the main non-encryption goal will be to simulated nature's phenomena, from protein foldings to black hole, to big-bang(s), etc. Bruno On 01 Dec 2017, at 01:05, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Any potential for this technology to go beyond B

Re: After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters

After 37 years it fires up. And you guys think that American stuff is crap (its all Chinese now). When it last fired, Jimmy Carter was US Prez. -Original Message- From: Telmo Menezes To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Dec 2, 2017

Re: US vs North Korea

Think THAAD and AEGIS or as I call them, THAAD and Jeremy -Original Message- From: agrayson2000 To: Everything List Sent: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 8:51 pm Subject: US vs North Korea Insights welcome as to how this situation will

Re: An AI program that teaches itself

Well, the news this week had a dimension all its own, with IBM's simulation of a 56 qubit processor that beats what Google currently has at 49 qubits, and would run at 1 billion times faster than the schematic simulation itself does. For me, I am not totally craving an intelligent Guy in a

Re: An interstellar asteroid​ ​has been found

"The most unusual feature of the asteroid, was noted by astronomers, observing the asteroid's copious production of helium and lithium, passing outwards, from one side of the asteroid, and the non-typical heat signature from the asteroidal crater, leaving the asteroid at high speed. More

Re: What is a Löbian machine/number/combinator

The Lobian Machines arise from a universe, infinite in time and extent. From afar Ludwig Boltzmann looks down and laughs at the puny mortals attempting to comprehend his greatness. Hugh Everett the 3rd claps Boltzmann on the back and buys him a drink! The AI Tin Man says, "If I only had a

Re: Is the Continuum Hypothesis a) really true or really false, or b) something else ?

The answer is right in front of us. Quantum collapse indicates that a photon must pass through a slit, and become either a wave or a particle. But the answer gets more complex, with Wigner's 4 body solution, with the photons becoming either Yanny or Laurel, as opposed to Alice and Bob.

Re: Why Alien Life Would be our Doom - The Great Filter

The article I read talked about the instructions to build malicious code into how to make medical nanobots, and then when the time is right the bots go into action and instead of saving, they kill everyone. A sneak attack. We download, unless we download into an isolated computer, it escapes

Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

What energy systems would you reco? Exclusive even of GMO chat etc.. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 1:12 pm Subject: Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating On Thu,

Brian Whitworth's views on the Physics of a Simulated Universe

Brian Whitworth is a mathematician in NZ who has worked for quite a while with the idea of the universe being a sim. Peruse t leisure with some of his material and see what you think? I lifted this from a 2 month old email, that I forgot about because I was moving, and re-discovered it tonight.

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

live within a Diophantine equation? On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 7:47 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Yielding (Here comes the awful question) The knowledge of our Diophantine-connected existence, does what for us? Implications?? Provides a TOE that assumes no more than

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

An apt question (for me) is how knowing that we dwell within a Diophantine equation help matters? Help, our specie in either engineering (building new stuff) or mentally? Or is the Diophantine thing, just a mental buzz that people gifted with tightly, wired neurons, (spindle cells?) find great

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

endeavor, but as you indicated, this is not clear.. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Aug 4, 2018 7:29 am Subject: Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation? On 3 Aug 2018, at 23:36, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: An apt question

Re: The Many Incarnations of Bruno

Deutsch, like a physicists, is a superbly, bright, guy. I liked hos idea of flipping the time travel concept by indicating that you could go back in time, and kill your grandpa, but, you could go into a parallel universe's past, and mess with their lives. In any case, unless you like the idea

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

navigation Jump to search Finding all right triangles with integer side-lengths is equivalent to solving the Diophantine equation a2 + b2 = c2. In mathematics, a Diophantine equation is a polynomial equation, usually in two or more unknowns, such that only the integer solutionsare sought

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

all the richness of the Mandlebrot set, this simple equation defines/creates all the richness of computable first-person experience. So in a certain sense you could say we live within such an equation. Jason On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 2:09 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

advanced than whats taught in elementary school. I can't imagine a TOE that could assume less. Jason On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 9:15 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Very well, but, why this class of equation? Why not some ther branch of mathematics? Facetiously, what not a toaster-oven

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

So its just a means of propagating IF statements! -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Jul 24, 2018 9:06 am Subject: Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation? On 23 Jul 2018, at 21:09, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: navigation

Re: Does GR tell us why anything moves?

My guess on this is yes GR tells us stuff-to a point. What point? Probably there are several more physical dimensions to putz around with, if you are mathematician or physicist. The ability to infer or discover the new physical dimensions that I assert exist, is eliminated by our current lack

Re: How to live forever

Soon the rich will be rushing to Alcor! -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 5:21 pm Subject: How to live forever ​ Woody Allen said "I don't want to achieve immortality through my

Re: Mind Uploading

We shall rule the stars! -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 9:10 pm Subject: Mind Uploading ​ A new company called " ​ Nectome" was started just today to use revolutionary new

Re: Do we live within a Diophantine equation?

Unless it exists Outside the observable universe. On the other hand, unless one grooves on the platonic (which is an Amygdala buzz), a fried egg has more meaning. Just my trolling, do continue. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Jun 25, 2018 9:59 pm

Re: Tao and Physics

Some see The Flying Nun, and others see a C-130 Cargo plane adapted by the military, to fire vulcun minigun 30mm rounds! Now, which is the most spiritual??? Only the observer, or Schrodinger, can say. -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Wed, Oct 3, 2018

Re: Tao and Physics

Here is the 3 letter ascii symbol for God ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Wed, Oct 3, 2018 12:10 pm Subject: Re: Tao and Physics On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 11:27 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > Please read Plotinus or Proclus

Re: Tao and Physics

Read both. Made me wonder about the quantum & Bohmian mechanics? -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Oct 2, 2018 9:53 am Subject: Re: Tao and Physics On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 7:53 AM Lawrence Crowell wrote: > Fritz Capra wrote a book titled The

Re: What is more primary than numbers?

Did math exist in Dimetrodon brains, or when Mushrooms reached 24 feet tall, as precursors to trees?https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/It would then prove that math exists outside a human brain. IF . Some

Re: New equations go beyond Einstein's theory of General Relativity

Yes, and it looks fun. I am not sure if this axiomatically, predicts a big bounce or no, or if say 5000 massive, spinning, black holes each produce a new universe, or just ?  Most days it's hard to care because, unless the data yields delight, then I give it a meh!   -Original

Re: The structure of the world from pure numbers

Well, I follow Tipler (kind of, sort of), because of his FAP with John Barrow, at Sussex, with its Omega Point Theory, and its promise of You Know What. Purely an emotive response. Also kind of fun. So far, his elimination of infinities, argument (against) seems to have held. He did miss out on

Re: The grandfather paradox, redux

I always liked Deutsch's version of MWI better. You kill Gramps but not in your own universe.I also liked Trans-Earth's trading or warfare. Maybe trade, and forget the war? We could do trade with other successful human species like worlds where Neanderthals or Boskops hit the bigtime?Alternate

Re: Supermassive Black Holes

So, what would John Clark's definition of "groundbreaking" be, within the realm of astrophysics and cosmology? You don't suspect that 'groundbreaking' for that team, may not be groundbreaking for you?  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Apr 1, 2019

Re: Test 20190218

Received! -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Feb 18, 2019 4:10 am Subject: Test 20190218 Hi, This is a test. I did not get my last answers back. I guess some problem with google account… Sorry, I will try to send them again. I will see on the web

Re: Test 20190218

Mysterious? No! Lobian? Yes! -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Feb 21, 2019 9:24 am Subject: Re: Test 20190218 On 18 Feb 2019, at 23:22, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Received! Thanks. Eventually I got the older messages. I don’t

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

Very nice stuff, like many games now have.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Mar 16, 2019 8:49 am Subject: Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 8:43 AM Philip Thrift wrote: >There is some AI art that sells at galleries    

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

Some years ago, some astronomer or cosmologist introduced the idea of One Gigantic Universe, but many, many, "domains," which, for me, is the same thing as Everett's-Deutsch's-Tegmark's multiverses. I am not sure if all domains followed the identical laws, or varied, or..? -Original

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

published on amazon On 15 May 2019, at 17:41, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Some years ago, some astronomer or cosmologist introduced the idea of One Gigantic Universe, but many, many, "domains," which, for me, is the same thing as Everett's-Deutsch's-Tegmark's multiverses.

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

This, somehow makes me hungry for apples. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Mon, May 27, 2019 8:20 am Subject: Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:19 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: > From a (neo)platonic perspective, atheism is a slight

Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

I like the notion, raised (sort of) about 15 years ago, by physicists, Andreas Albrecht, and L. Sorbo, where as, God was produced, in a purely, as a wave function from as a Boltzmann Brain. Dr. Marchal considers this idiocy (and he may be right) but, I enjoy it. I mean, it explains things, but

Re: Trump Supporters?

: howardmarks To: spudboy100 via Everything List Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019 4:18 pm Subject: Re: Trump Supporters? I think the labels "fascist" or "liberal" of A. and B. are distortions. There are lots of con-artists, blowhards, cultured and/or intellectual people that h

Re: Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics (SEP)

Physicists, John Cramer, and Jack Sarfatti, were big into this, some years ago.  -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Jun 4, 2019 12:57 pm Subject: Re: Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics (SEP) On 4 Jun 2019, at 12:05, Philip Thrift wrote: new

Re: Trump Supporters?

Well Krupp Steel and the other German industrialists "believed," they could control dolf, via the money supply. They, in 1929, as I recall, founded the a. hitler fund, to finance his career. When the 1929 stock market crash happened, and set of the depression, which under Hoover and

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

it: The Quran I see a lot of speculative discussions on this list where even the basic assumptions are unknown. The word primitive matter, etc, keep popping up, so I shared what I know from the source I trust.       On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:04 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Look, Sam, you're

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

Here is a side question to this, but it has a purpose to the Uma (Muslim community). Ok, historically, Allah, before Muhammad was the Arabian moon god. What happens on earth when say, Musk, Bezos, or Jack Ma from China, or some enthusiastic, Japanese fellow starts sending robots to Mine the

Re: Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics (SEP)

Sure, Huw Price, Times Arrow. For time stuff, we should throw in Ron Mallett and Carlo Rovelli as well. For me, with physics and astronomy, I always seek the pay out (Cynically). Does it make things better for people? Can we do something, not even useful, but usable? Are we just supposed to

Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

, at 23:10, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: I like the notion, raised (sort of) about 15 years ago, by physicists, Andreas Albrecht, and L. Sorbo, where as, God was produced, in a purely, as a wave function from as a Boltzmann Brain. Dr. Marchal considers this idiocy (and he may be right

Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Still, Boltzmann was really good for a 19th century fellow, living in the age of Carnot, and so forth. Not bad for a thermodynamicist. There is nothing to dismiss in thermodynamic, and Boltzmann is a giant in physics. I appreciate him very much.I hope you

Re: anrcho-libertarianism

The environment which we all have lived, is a plutocracy, so unless one can contribute massive cash against one's enemies, by bribing politicians with donations, and, or, their employment after their political careers end, we end up being serfs. That doesn't mean serfs will walk away from an

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

Look, Sam, you're not going to succeed at Dawa here, unless you get into the weeds, via physics. So, thus, you have got to be prepared to peek over Allah's shoulder and answer the biggest questions of all, not the Why questions, but the How, the mechanics of How Mister Allah does his things,

Re: Trump Supporters?

the in this world, cash is the ghost in the machine. -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Jun 3, 2019 6:54 pm Subject: Re: Trump Supporters? On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 6:10 PM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: So, you don't feel that the democrats are funded

Re: Trump Supporters?

So, you don't feel that the democrats are funded by billionaires as well and do the billionaires bidding?Do you think that democrats are the party of the 'little guy," or the US middle class?You do know that the money flows in from the uber rich and this, then, is a Plutocracy? Or do you feel

Re: Trump Supporters?

It's an attempt to control or coral the rest of us. I look at the Left (soc-comms) whether media or not, as sort of an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Hell, I should know, I used to be one them.   -Original Message- From: Lawrence Crowell To: Everything List Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019

Re: Trump Supporters?

Yeah, of course!  Nyet Problemy, comrade!   -Original Message- From: PGC To: Everything List Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2019 7:29 pm Subject: Re: Trump Supporters? On Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 11:47:24 PM UTC+2, spudb...@aol.com wrote: Darwin bless us all! Lol, not you. He'd say you're

Re: Trump Supporters?

world. So when they wreck this place, they can set up shop, elsewhere.  -Original Message- From: John Clark To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Jun 3, 2019 9:12 pm Subject: Re: Trump Supporters? On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 7:32 PM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: >Yes indeed, but it

Re: Trump Supporters?

at 10:00 PM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: > Well,  to tell the world that Most Americans do not have insurance coverage > would be one of the democrat lies. I never said most don't have insurance, but before Obamacare 41 million people didn't have any, thanks to Obamacare that

Re: anrcho-libertarianism

Opinion wise, I wonder if this would have killed the Great Depression, thus, at least,.halting the momentum of the national socialists and causing defections among the communists?  https://www.hgsss.org/prosperity-through-public-money-lessons-from-the-miracle-of-worgl-austria/ -Original

Re: Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics (SEP)

I read your article, and noticed that there was a New Scientist article (stub) available with an identical term, Mirrorverse, etc to your article. Nothing retrocausal in it as far as I could glance at. This was more identifying dark matter as the mirror, and dark matter was decayed neutrons.

Re: anrcho-libertarianism

Lets cut to the chase folks. In the US, the rich bribe politicians who depend on millions and billions of donations from the rich or PAC's thereof. With dems you get dead-silence, when I present evidence of corporations that bribe the democrats, and the republicans gladly take goodies from the

Re: Trump Supporters?

?? as opposed to those wonderful attorneys that the democratic party produces for it's leaders, who never take donations from billionaires, ever, and have the genuine interests of the US middle class at heart? You betcha!  Would you like me to supply the link to Open Secrets, the non-partisan

Re: Trump Supporters?

Because B lies all the more to try to get elected?  -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Sat, Jun 1, 2019 3:01 pm Subject: Re: Trump Supporters? When America is presented a choice: A. con-artist, blowhard fascistB. cultured, intellectual liberal A always

Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

Whether the universe, is just a set of numbers, or it's reality as has been conventionally described, a dream within a dream, I still want the the fix to be in for our specie. If it's material, immaterial, or a mix, or something else, we should endeavor to make existence better. 

Re: The anecdote of Moon landing

To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Jun 17, 2019 12:49 pm Subject: Re: The anecdote of Moon landing On 17 Jun 2019, at 00:50, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Whether the universe, is just a set of numbers, If you assume sets, that is already too big, and Mechanism will entails the observat

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

Oh, why not both, especially when that defender of freedom, Zuck pushes his Libra :-) ? -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Tue, Jun 18, 2019 5:52 am Subject: Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity On 13 Jun 2019, at 19:19, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

iI like the Pastafatians. However I am not against religion, just the mentality of the fanatic. Fanaticism usually means If you don't obey us, we will kill youThis mentality is not just hugely, seen, among the Islamists.But also, their political chums, the Progressives (socialists & communists

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

aren't playing with a full deck.  -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Jun 13, 2019 7:27 am Subject: Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity On 12 Jun 2019, at 05:09, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: iI like the Pastafatians. However I am not against

Re: A purely relational ontology?

I don't know jack about "eternal," but in physics (memory?) here is an example of 'immortal' which is darn close to eternal :-)https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190614094634.htmI like stuff like this, so I posted it. Is it at all of use? Meh! -Original Message- From: Philip

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

is affected, will come into play. -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Thu, Jun 20, 2019 6:17 am Subject: Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity On 19 Jun 2019, at 05:15, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Oh, why not both, OK. especially when

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity On 20 Jun 2019, at 20:43, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Well, they defame themselves, and successfully bribe politicians. Interestingly, they have all, regardless of party, in the US, have left the nationalist camp. entirely. This will cause an effec

Re: Huh? (was Allah nonsense​)​

If God does not exist, or does exist in a fashion we cannot grasp, or is 3 people/entities. or is Hindu and many many-we don't get a choice, and nobody asked us to vote. If you want to honor God, help somebody out (materialism!)..   "But don't it make you want to rock and roll All night long

Re: Allah: the One and Only Deity

, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Heh! Bruno, in the USA it's all about money, which is symbolic, or is it? Money is like love and energy. It can be exchanged, it can grows, and it is problematic when you have none. The rich buy the politicians to fill their pockets more, but also buy

Re: Huh? (was Allah nonsense​)​

, at 01:36, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: If God does not exist, or does exist in a fashion we cannot grasp, or is 3 people/entities. or is Hindu and many many-we don't get a choice, and nobody asked us to vote. If you want to honor God, help somebody out (materialism!)..   Why honour God

Re: Eternal return

Yeah, Frank Tipler proposed this more seriously, and Sabine Hossenfelder, more recently., speculatively, via quantum mechanics. Many trans-humanists hate this proposal because, hey, no continuity. Years ago, philosopher, Robert Nozick proposed a pragmatic, closest continuer hypothesis.

Re: Is your elbow conscious?

It's harder in a science lab to produce either, unless we are speaking of the researchers themselves. No emotional machine Mr Spok, no great leap forward in intelligence, YET. I would harness AI to producing new inventions, much, much, faster-if I could?  -Original Message- From: John

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology) '

I will add, whether testable or not testable (yet) I ask, (my stubborn ignorance free of charge! How can this make life better? Subjective, I know! -Original Message- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List To: everything-list Sent: Wed, May 1, 2019 12:15 pm Subject: Re: Bernardo

Re: Towards Conscious AI Systems

Brain is what neurosurgeons get paid to work on and what neuroscientists study. It may all be maya, an illusion, but it pays the illusionary bills. Which, are stubbornly, persistent, till they get paid. -Original Message- From: 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List To: Everything List

Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A consciousness-only ontology"

For this to work, as a function built into the universe (baked in), we'd need a substrate for the mind, I reckon.  -Original Message- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List To: everything-list Sent: Fri, May 3, 2019 1:41 pm Subject: Re: Bernardo Kastrup: "Analytic Idealism: A

Re: Matter is forever

Aha! Thrift. Have at you! What do you think about last month's reveal, by the University of Munich upon quasi-particles? Matter, indeed, may be forever?  https://www.realclearscience.com/2019/06/17/quasiparticles_can_become_quotvirtually_immortalquot_286342.htmlIn other words this conceivably

Re: Notes from the Underground

As a conspiracy-believer, I agree with Howard Hunt on this, sadly. I used to believe that because Oswald was a communist, he was a tool of the KGB and Cuban DGI/Castro, and they both had reasons to kill Kennedy. Kennedy used CIA to kill Castro, and the Kremlin fail of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon

"What is Mind? not matter,What is matter? Never mind!" -The Tao of Homer -Original Message- From: 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List To: Everything List Sent: Mon, Apr 15, 2019 6:34 pm Subject: Re: My book "I Am" published on amazon "Matter" is just an idea in consciousness. -- You

Re: Very recent developments in topological quantum computing ​

Thoughts:Is this Uranium compound radioactive do you think? As in hazardous?  Drexler's nanotech looks best used in medical microrobots, and not manufacturing-and that prize goes to 3D-bulk printing.I believe there has been problems in getting these entanglements in QC to successfully attain

Re: Quantum Foam

an idea... I have tried to explore some of these ayaat in a series of posts, which might be of interest to you:  https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/p/allah.html     On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:59 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: You need to answer the How questions of physics, before you

Re: Quantum Foam

Well, I tend not to disagree with you concerning Islam (The Uma) doing nothing about the Islamists, so that Kuffar lives (infidels) don't really matter under Sharia Law; and no we shouldn't opt to live under their Dhimmi Laws, in which we and our grandkids resign ourselves to permanent 2nd or

Re: The Mistake about Mary (in the Black and White Room)

It seems a smarter path to go on, siding with materialism, as a floor, improving our scientific equipment, all the time, to measure the universe (telescopes, ligo, accelerators), and letting any other conjecture, such as neoplatonism, see if it can fit in, or catch up? We need never dismiss

Re: Quantum Foam

have an idea... I have tried to explore some of these ayaat in a series of posts, which might be of interest to you:  https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/p/allah.html     On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 3:59 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: You need to answer the How questions of physics, before

Re: Quantum Foam

My guess, even if "young Crowell" objects,  is that religion confers an evolutionary advantage to those so, deluded. Thus they, we, breed more offspring with this psychological trait, whilst the socialists doth diminish, hence, their mad- rush by progressives, worldwide, to embrace the

Re: Quantum Foam

And so we have! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/294721340_God_is_a_Vacuum_Fluctuation Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck! -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Mon, Sep 2, 2019 2:54 am Subject: Re: Quantum Foam On Sunday, September 1, 2019 at 8:34:06 PM UTC-5,

Re: Quantum Foam

You need to answer the How questions of physics, before you can properly look at the Why questions of religion (yours), and philosophy. One possibility that I find compelling (and it is never a complete answer) is that God is a Boltzmann Brain, and the Universe might be, in some fashion that

Re: Quantum Foam

: Quantum Foam On 3 Sep 2019, at 02:44, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: Well, I tend not to disagree with you concerning Islam (The Uma) doing nothing about the Islamists, so that Kuffar lives (infidels) don't really matter under Sharia Law; and no we shouldn't opt to live under

Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll)

Thanks, I will buy Carroll's book later today. I always liked Hugh Everett's MWI because it's excellent, in an emotionally-appealing way for us sci-fi fans. Beyond this. (kudos, to Bryce DeWiit A. Wheeler as well!), I also see commercial possibilities with this $$. Like, what if it takes less

Re: An AI can now pass a 12th-Grade Science Test

Well, I suppose we all will find out in the next view years regarding AI cooperation. My guess is the smarter these get, the more they will dovetail or fit in with human needs and wants. I sort of see these, after much development, to sort of become one, with the human species. Think of it as

Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll)

I prob'ly' smack yo face fo say'in dat! Dat's probability fo ya! Word!  -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Thu, Sep 12, 2019 5:20 am Subject: Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll) On Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 11:45:41 PM UTC-5,

Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll)

And yet...when somebody has a problem in physics needing resolving, they likely go to Professor Carroll and not many here. Possibly Standish from Aus, or Bruno from The Heart of Europe, than anyone on this auguste mailing list. Hilbert Space, De Sitter Space, it's probably the same

Re: An AI can now pass a 12th-Grade Science Test

vagueness on precursors to the Singularity. For me, AI's improving on, and inventing new inventions is Singularity, enough! It now looks like we are achieving this, quantum computing, or No quantum computing. -Original Message- From: Tomasz Rola To: spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is

So, if we develop AI to come up with new, better, equations, this would be good with you, because, non-human?  Perhaps he could usefully have added: "nor to be in perfect harmony with any humanly devised equation." Bruce -Original Message- From: Bruce Kellett To: everything-list

Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is

Oh My! I'll simply have to delete my un-read download of Carroll's book because Woit disapproves!!!   -Original Message- From: Philip Thrift To: Everything List Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2019 9:28 am Subject: Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is On Monday, September

Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll)

this to the committee and await my Fields Prize.  -Original Message- From: Bruno Marchal To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2019 1:25 pm Subject: Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll) On 16 Sep 2019, at 02:46, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: My guess

Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll)

That's genius, Evgenii, sheer, unadulterated, genius!   -Original Message- From: Evgenii Rudnyi To: everything-list Sent: Sat, Sep 14, 2019 2:09 am Subject: Re: Another physicist in mental decline (Sean Carroll) Am 13.09.2019 um 03:11 schrieb spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: A modest proposal

If we've got a hard to limit, Set, then more or less, is 'good enough for government work!' Also, shall I invoke the old notion of an infinite universe, or even (by our standards) near, infinite? It does the same thing that MWI does, and doesn't require quantum mechanics.  -Original

Re: Why Consciousness Cannot Be Algorithmic

Well, if consciousness is wholly indexical (the original word by Liebniz)  why not then have a mechanism for data transfer to another cosmos, to the clone, the nearest, closest, continuer? Yeah, this only confuses things, but it's an idea by the cell biologist Bob Lanza 20 years ago.

Re: Why Consciousness Cannot Be Algorithmic

You mean human consciousness or something bigger?  -Original Message- From: 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List To: Everything List Sent: Sun, Sep 15, 2019 7:39 am Subject: Re: Why Consciousness Cannot Be Algorithmic The reason is much simpler: "Physics" is just an idea in

Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is

Kellett To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2019 9:08 pm Subject: Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:39 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote: It would be (will be?) interesting when we achieve this. Serious, academic bench computer

Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is

? A Cartesian dualist imputing a magic substance? :-)  -Original Message- From: Bruce Kellett To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Sep 16, 2019 7:28 pm Subject: Re: Sean Carroll: Universe a 'tiny sliver' of all there is On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 6:44 AM spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:   So

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